Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Trying to find a DocBook solution that simply works

["Dave Brooks, BCS Systems" <dave at bcs dot co dot nz>]

My toolset is OpenJade with DSSSL stylesheets, along with pdfjadetex to 
build PDF. The stylesheets also provide for making HTML and RTF.

I looked at using XSLT (and would prefer to work with XSL and not have to 
come to grips with DSSSL customisation), but concluded that the XSL 
stylesheets and transformation tools are not quite as mature as the DSSSL 
ones, certainly for producing PDF.

Having said that about XSL, I've also found there are a few patches that 
need to be applied to openjade and jadetex in order to produce quality 
output, but all in all it does work.

Best regards,


Dave

At 19:36 22/08/01 -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 04:17:33PM -0700, Tom Epperly wrote:
> > At this point, I am about to recommend using something other than DocBook,
> > and this isn't the recommendation I expected to be making.  Is there a set
> > of DocBook applications that can take a validated DocBook or DocBook XML
> > file and simply and reliably make HTML, PDF and RTF?
>
>   To make HTML and FO, xsltproc should do it. I don't have debian packages,
>you may find libxml2/libxslt from Debian but I can't garantee they are up to
>date otherwise compile from the sources of 2.4.2 and 1.0.2:
>      ftp://xmlsoft.org/
>
>   I'm afraid I don't provide a full solution, PDF can probably be generated
>from the resulting FO using FOP, RTF I have no idea.
>
>     Web pages at:
>       http://xmlsoft.org/
>       http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/
>
>   KDE uses it to generate it HTML from DocBook, Gnome is switching to it
>to and I think Norm uses it too to some extent,


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